County crime profile · 2024 · large county · violent-led

Calhoun County, AL

At 116,441 residents, Calhoun County is a large county in Alabama. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).

Data updated 2026-08-24

238
Violent offenses
192
Property offenses
430
Total · 2024

Calhoun County, AL reported 204 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Calhoun County, AL agencies reported 238 violent and 192 property offenses. That equals about 204 violent and 165 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.

  • 2024 UCR year
  • 238 violent offenses
  • 204/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Calhoun County, AL

Offense mix

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 55.3% of the 430 Part I offenses reported in Calhoun County for 2024, against a median of 21.3% across comparable Alabama counties — a gap of 34.0 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.

Position in the state cohort

Calhoun County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Alabama counties

At 204.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Calhoun County ranks 3 of 56 — above 53 of the 55 other Alabama counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +172.5% against the cohort median of 75.0. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.

Property-offense composition

Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort

Larceny-theft is 75.0% of reported property offenses in Calhoun County, against a cohort median of 61.8%. The remainder is burglary (48) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.

2022–2024 direction

The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower

Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 217.3 per 100,000 in 2022 to 204.4 in 2024 (-5.9%). The highest observed value was 217.3 in 2022 and the lowest 184.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.

Crime Breakdown (2024) · violent-led · large county

Category Count
Violent Crime 238
Murder 2
Rape 5
Robbery 0
Aggravated Assault 231
Property Crime 192
Burglary 48
Larceny-Theft 144
Motor Vehicle Theft 0
Arson 8

Reporting Agency

Calhoun County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Calhoun County's crime figures on this page originate from Calhoun County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.

Similar-Size Counties in Alabama

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Alabama counties closest to Calhoun County in population. Their populations run from 91,103 to 107,202, against 116,441 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Calhoun County

Similar violent rate (~204/100K)

Similar property rate (~165/100K)

ZIP Codes in Calhoun County

State atlas: Alabama · Compare · Rankings

Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.

FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.

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